Imperial Dialogues - a series of talks with prominent public figures on contemporary issues. The debate evenings offer a regular platform for discussions on society, science, technology, art and the challenges we face in the Czech Republic and the world.
Our guest this time will be historian Martin Franc. He deals with the history of science policy between 1945-1993, diet and nutrition in the 18th-20th centuries. He also focuses on the history of lifestyle and consumerism in Czechoslovakia between 1945-1989.
Martin Franc is a historian specialising in the history of science policy, diet and lifestyle. He works at the Masaryk Institute and the Archives of the CAS and lectures at the Faculty of Humanities, Charles University.
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Together with doc. Martin Franco, we will look at how our society's relationship to eating has changed over the last century, at the specifics of spa eating, and also at the extent to which the period of state socialism still influences the eating habits of the inhabitants of our country. We will certainly not avoid the question of the popularity of fried cheese, we will look at where "traditional" cuisine came from and what the ideal of healthy food was before.